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How to create a bootable CD/DVD

more Tips STEP 1 - Prepare something bootable
To begin, you need some kind of bootable medium, preferably a floppy disk If you have a floppy disk drive: Create a bootable floppy, for instance by using Start->Programs->Snapshot->Create Recover Floppy Use A: as bootable bootable medium below If you have no disk drive - Method A: Method 1: create a small partition, then restore networkbootdiskette.sna (installed during setup) to this partition. You can customize this partition at will (change autoexec.bat etc.). Use this partition as bootable medium below. If you have no disk drive - Method B: Create a bootable (uncompressed) image of a floppy. Using the windows commandline, expand networkbootdiskette.sna with the (undocumented) command c:\programs\snapshot> snapshot networkbootdiskette.sna bootdisk.img -X Use bootdisk.img as bootable medium below.

STEP 2 - Burn disk, using NERO
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start Nero (create a new project) [Close Wizard] if necessary, we need the tabbed view in the top left, select CD or DVD in the lower left, scroll down to CD-ROM [boot] or DVD-ROM [boot] click the [boot] tab select (*) bootable logical drive or (*) image file, depending on the boot medium from above enable expert settings make sure ' kind of emulation' is set to Floppy Emulation 1,44 MB click [NEW] add image files to the CD/DVD; they will be visible on drive W: when booted from CD burn done